You can use your complete MyPlan in full and unedited as an e-Portfolio if you wish.

• You can save it as a PowerPoint show which you can burn on a CD or DVD. 
• You can add slide transitions for an on-screen presentations and put in action buttons to link to other slides, other documents or even web-sites.  For example, a picture of a résumé can be made into an action button that links to the actual document on your own computer, on the same CD or DVD or on a web server.  Youy can do the same with references, reports, certificates and other documents.

Targeted e-Portfolios

One of the great advantages of MyPlan is its ability to produce many different targeted e-portfolios from single single master MyPlan.  The targeted e-portfolios can be:

• normal presentations printed as handouts,
• PowerPoint shows,
• PowerPoint web pages, or even
• PowerPoint movies in QuickTime format. 

A targeted e-portfolio need contain only the pages that are relevant to the target audience.  For example, a portfolio submitted for assessment at year 10 would need to include almost every page from your yr10 MyPlan 2010.ppt, while a portfolio to be shown at a student-led conference or parent teacher interview could be compiled more selectively to an improvement or specific achievement.

You can prepare a targeted e-portfolio from an original MyPlan, by opening MyPlan and selecting the slide sorter view from the icon at the bottom left corner of the PowerPoint screen or from the <view> menu in the top bar.  This MyPlan can be saved as a new version with a name that will help you identify the file (for example: “yr10_assessment_MyPlan.ppt”).  You can then look through the slides displayed in the “slide sorter” view and delete any that are not relevant to the purpose or audience for this particular targeted version.  You can also rearrange the pages into any order that helps make a point or tell a story.  If you make a mistake and delete a page that you feel that you should keep, you can just open your original MyPlan and copy the missing page and paste it back into the targeted portfolio.  It is a good idea to immediately close your original MyPlan so that you don’t get them mixed up and delete original pages.

It is also worthwhile to save your earlier versions of your MyPlan to build a documented history of your goals, strategies and achievements. You should remember that plans should change.  That is why MyPlan should be regularly reviewed.  If a strategy is not working, change it.  If a goal is not as important as it once seemed, change or replace it.  If your achievements exceed your earlier expectations, you can consider resetting your goals to achieve even more.  The purpose of MyPlan is to encourage and facilitate that achievement.

There are many examples of interesting developments of e-portfolios. There are links to some of them here:

http://electronicportfolios.org/hs/index.html